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Just recently, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) twice described Israel as a “pariah” among the world’s nations:”Israel cannot survive if it becomes a pariah. … [The Israeli public] understands better than anybody that Israel cannot hope to succeed as a pariah opposed by the rest of the world.”It was for that reason that the majority leader said that Israel should choose a leader other than Benjamin Netanyahu, its current prime minister. Then, Schumer implied, Israel will presumably no longer be a pariah.In Schumer’s view, and in the view of most of the Democratic Party, as well as that of The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, The Guardian, the BBC, and nearly every university in the West, the world is right, and Israel is wrong.
Therefore, Israel is a pariah among the nations.But there is another possible explanation for why Israel is a pariah among the nations: namely, that the nations of the world are morally wrong and Israel is morally right with regard to the war the tiny Jewish country is waging in Gaza against Hamas.And what exactly does “pariah among the nations” mean? Has a plebiscite among the world’s nations been taken? Do we really know how all the world’s nations view Israel at this time? Or do we only know the views of the world’s governments? And even with regard to governments, Israel is not entirely a pariah.
One very significant government, that of Germany, continues to support Israel. As regards the nations themselves, according to polls, the majority of the American people continue to support Israel. Ironically, then, the description of Israel given by the majority leader of the United States Senate does not even hold true in the senator’s own country.
So, why did Mr. Schumer use that language — not once, but twice?
One reason, I believe, is that he is a frightened Jew. This is not my opinion. He acknowledged fear of being eradicated in a Holocaust-like event: “Some Palestinians,” he said, “have voted to empower groups like Hamas, which seeks to eradicate the Jewish people.”
“Some” Palestinians? Most Palestinians, according to all polls, adore Hamas. Three out of four, according to The Palestinian Center for Policy Survey and Research (and reported by Reuters), support the Oct. 7 atrocities. The primary reason the Palestinian Authority has not allowed elections in 18 years is that it knows Hamas would win. In a decent world, the Palestinians would be a pariah.
Schumer knows Hamas “seeks to eradicate the Jewish people.” Few non-Jews have a clue how much the Holocaust has affected Jews — including those born after the Holocaust and those Jews who lost no relatives in the greatest genocide in modern history. Most Jews suffer from a form of collective PTSD.
It could not be otherwise. The most culturally advanced country in the world, the most militarily powerful country in Europe, sought to murder every Jew in Europe — including babies and the elderly. And it nearly succeeded: Two of every three European Jews were murdered. Equally significantly, “the nations” watched. So, just for the record, the Jews in Europe during World War II were also a pariah among the nations. With a few noble exceptions, the world was divided between nations that helped exterminate the Jews and nations that refused to do anything for them — neither allowing into their countries the few who managed to escape the Nazis nor bombing any of the death camps or even just the railway tracks leading into those camps.
For 3,000 years, the fate of the Jews has nearly always been to be a pariah among the nations. This was foretold in the Hebrew Bible itself, which cites Balaam, a pagan “prophet,” as saying that Israel is “a nation that shall dwell alone, not be reckoned among the nations” (Numbers 23:9). When Jews are defenseless, they are a pariah. And when Jews defend themselves, they are, according to Mr. Schumer and the elites of the world, also a pariah.
Had Mr. Schumer told the truth, he would have said this: Israel’s being a pariah among the world’s nations tells us much more about the world’s nations than about Israel. Just as it did a mere two generations ago.
The world hates Israel and the Jews because Jesus was a Jew., and the less Christian the world becomes, the more it hates them
“Christian Persecution of Jews over the Centuries”
https://www.ushmm.org/research/about-the-mandel-center/initiatives/ethics-religion-holocaust/articles-and-resources/christian-persecution-of-jews-over-the-centuries/christian-persecution-of-jews-over-the-centuries
“Understanding the Christian Roots of Antisemitism”
https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/understanding-christian-roots-antisemitism
“Antisemitism and the New Testament”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism_and_the_New_Testament
Antisemitism represents the twisting of the Christian tradition, rather than being faithful to its intrinsic nature. The Emperor Constantine was deeply anti-Semitic, requiring that adult converts to his syncretistic State church, which was comprised of elements of Babylonian idolatry as well as Christianity, should formally renounce Judaism. Note that provision was made within the State church for the Babylonians to go on practising their faith, just by a different name (the 25th December is the birthday of the Babylonian god Tammuz), but no such latitude was afforded to the Jews. I strongly suspect that it was at this point that reading the NT in Greek, rather than Aramaic, became normative. Prior to Constantine, not only did the church not have the power to persecute any other faith, but it forbade its members to bear arms (which of course had to change under Constantine). One of the reasons why the marginaliation of the Aramaic NT is important, is that the Peshitta makes it clear that Jesus consistently applied the Tetragrammaton to himself. Absent that knowledge, it would be easy to conclude that 1st century Judaism was rather trigger-happy about stoning people. If Jesus was not who he said he was, then he actually did deserve to be sentenced as a blasphemer.
PS “marginaliation” should of course be “marginalisation”
You really need a psychiatrist and a strait jacket. Are you really trying to blame Christians for what Hamas did last year. Are you really that sick and obsessive.
Was Rand really a as effed up as you are? Can you ever take a break from your Anti-Christian biases. You will not ever change the world.
The world hated the Jews well before Christianity and Christians made it even worse as history tells us… they are the once’s who invented the Jewish eternal scape goat status and the blame the Jews slogan.
Israel is an example of the rest of the world.
It is now, 100% the establishment versus the rest of us.
The following paragraph is a parody of some comments Schumer made to the Supreme Court a year ago:
Schumer: “I want to tell you Netanyahu. I want to tell you Israel. You have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with this awful war. The United States government has six ways from Sunday of ruining you if you destroy Hamas. Don’t you dare win this war.”
Never mind that Israel was attacked by Hamas on Oct.7th. Never mind that Hamas has broken every cease fire with Israel. Never mind that Israel has been preemptively attacked by Muslims in every war they have fought. The Democrats just gotta get those Jews.
A pariah is a bad word. But thank G-d, lsrael is not like the world. According to the Scriptures, Israel will never ever be like the world, even though some Israelites once did (and some leftists today still want):
“We want to be like the nations, like the peoples of the world, who serve wood and stone.”
And the Lord replied that “what you have in mind will never happen”.
As a non-Jew, Holocaust is of course something else for me than for Jews. But Holocaust is nevertheless an open wound inside me. And some times even an accusation against the Lord. So I have to tell myself that the Lord´s justice will some day prevail.
The pariahs are the world leaders, – many of them. Because they are amoral. Following evil. By ignorance or purpose.
But the Lord is in control. His thoughts are higher than ours. And he loves us and has made himself dependant on us – what an amazing G-d! He “just” needs people; to pray, proclaim and act. Against lies, amorality, godlessness.
Thank you, mr Prager. And my everlasting thanks to Israel who gave us their Scriptures.
Israel also gave us a share in their Messiah.
Oh, yes. I´m soooo grateful!
I appreciate this article. As a longtime supporter of Israel I found Sen. Schumer’s speech very disturbing. I understand fear because terrorists have said they first “come for the Saturday people and go after the Sunday people.” Basically, this means Western civilization.
One characteristic trait of the Hebrew (“Ivri’) nation since Abraham’s time is the willingness to stand up on God’s side when all others, the most powerfiul nations included, are on the other side. This offends the uncivilized, morally destitute destroyers who think they rule the world. Billions of people can in fact be dead wrong. But, as in our prayers, the good guys will win out…
“Then shall the just see and be glad, the upright shall exult,
the pious shall rejoice in song, and iniquity shall close her mouth,
and all wickedness shall be wholly consumed like smoke, when
thou makest the dominion of arrogance to pass away from the
earth.
And thou, O Lord, shalt reign, thou alone, over all thy works
on Mount Zion, the dwelling-place of thy glory, and in Jerusalem,
thy holy City ; as it is written in thy holy words, The Lord
shall reign for ever, thy God, O Zion, unto all generations.
Praise ye the Lord.”
FYI, my text was from the translation in the old UK Adler Machzor for Rosh Hashanah.
When”progressives” (most recently Alexandria Ocasio Cortez) accuse Israel of “genocide” it’s an attempt to rub salt in old wounds by inverting the Holocaust. When Hamas and Fatah explicitly call for genocide of Israel’s Jews (now 50% of the worlds Jews and the only Jewish community of any size that isn’t shrinking) they’re expressing the feelings of the vast majority of “Palestinians”- Adolf Hitler would be a “mainstream Palestinian” in terms of his attitude toward Jews.
The only real difference between Fatah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad and the Nazis is the amount of power they wield vis a vis Jews. The United Nations, Obama, Biden and the “progressive wing” of the Democratic Party want to strengthen them and fatally weaken Israel. Hamas (and Fatah’s) stated goal (destroying Israel and perpetrating a Second Holocaust) is a secret wet dream of the Obama, Biden, Greta Thunberg and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez.
The Palestinian Playbook:
1. Kill as many Jews in Israel as possible.
2. Celebrate in the streets.
3. Promise that attacks will not stop until all 7 million Jews in Israel are dead.
4. Hide behind Palestinian children.
5. Show dead and suffering Palestinian children to CNN.
6. Whine to CNN about Collective Punishment and War Crimes.
7. Demand an Immediate Ceasefire.
8. Get Europe and the USA to demand an immediate Ceasefire.
9. Get Politically Correct Jews worried about reelection and accusations of dual loyalty to join in the demand for an immediate Ceasefire.
10. Force Israel to accept an immediate Ceasefire.
11. Repeat 1-10.
Works every time.
A Ceasefire now means more dead Jews in the future.
How do we know this is true? The Palestinians tell us.
Senator Schemer is a schmuck. The rest is all commentary.
One of the appalling things that has been very disappointing is that some of the leading spokespeople who spoke against the bioweapon shots are speaking against Israel and claiming Israel is committing genocide against the “Palestinians.” They are either ignorant or lying. There’s no such people group as Palestinians. Most of those who live in Gaza are for the genocide of Israelis and Jews. In fact many people in the world are against Jews. This was prophesied numerous times in the Bible. We are now living in the times that were prophesied.
If only Mr. Schumer as a Jew would be just a little open minded. God’s word fully shows how in the ‘end times’ the Jews WILL STAND ALONE.. Being open minded enough… to realize that Jesus words to the Apostle John in Jesus’ Revelation states that Israel will stand alone. If he’d also remember that God states He will bless those who bless Israel and curse those who curse Israel ( Genesis 12:3). Anything said or done that does not SUPPORT Israel is NOT on God’s “side”.
Mr. Schumer – Is that really where you want to be – against God? Job 1: 21 …”Jehovah gave, and Jehovah hath taken away; blessed be the name of Jehovah”
Like it or not – God’s side is where we all should stand. Wake up Chuckie!
Here is where America stands:
Isaiah 66:4
I also will choose their delusions, and bring their fears upon them: because when I called, none did answer; when I spoke, they did not hear: but they did evil before my eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.
Well-stated, Mr. Prager!
When God released the Israelites out of Egypt and they crossed the Jordan river, they were instructed by God to completely annihilate the kings and kingdoms of the land. I believe that is because those people had evil bred into their very being and could not be cleansed of it. The mistake was that the Israelites did not completely and utterly destroy those nations. Today they are fighting the same line of people who have such evil in them that they must utterly be destroyed. Israel needs to finish this campaign and it will be best for the world when there is not a single Hamas soldier left on the planet.
Thank you Mr. Prager. A clear and true read – as always. Know your history, and you can’t help feeling disgusted by the political leaders of the day. I keep saying: I stand by Israel.